Glove.



No. 706,725. Patented Aug. I2, |902.

J'. COMBIE.

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(Application. led Inn. 22, 1902.)

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INVENTOR l No. 706,725. Patented Aug. I2, |902.

J. COMRIE.

A GLOVE.

(Applicatun lecllan. 22, 1902.4)` (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE;

JENNINGs coMRIE', oF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

GLOVE.

sPEcIFIcATIoN forming 4peut of Letters PatentNo. 706,725, cated August 12,1902.

Application led January `.'22, 1902. Serial No. 90,841. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known thatLJENNINGs CoMEIE,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the between the finger parts of the "glove blank.

In order fully to understand the improvement which I claim, it will be necessary to explain the old method of glove-makin g with the technical naming of the parts. A gloveblank is the unshaped uncutmaterial from which the solid part of the glovejs to be cut. The fourchette is a strip (when solid or in halves) used to connect the front and back finger parts of the glove-blank, and a quirk is an angle-piece inserted at thebase of the finger parts and attached tothe fourchette and palm of the glove-blank forthe purpose of giving freedom of motion and filling in the natural space found in all hands where the lingers articulate with the palm. In every old form of glove manufactured is found-,either the fourchette itself joined to the front and back without a quirk, or in a better class of workthe detached then stitched quirk,gbetween the ngers on the inside orpalm side of the glove. In'thus manufacturing a gloveL there is a waste of material,and much skill is required in matching color, texture, and quality of quirk-pieces, and also careand a high degree of skill arerequired in placing and stitching the detached quirk-piece in proper place. In my improvement I do away with al1 this difficulty by cutting from the original blank a quirk attached on its palm side by narrowingl the width of the blankat the inside base of the finger parts. 'Ifhe quirk so attached onthe base side'is turned outward over the web of the fingers of the hand and stitched fast on its free sides to the inner end or ends, suitably cut, of the fourchettes.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the` accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a plan View of my improved glove-blank. Fig. II is a plan view of the fourchette employed therewith.- Fig. III is a perspective view of a glove made therefrom looking toward the base of the fingers.` Fig. IV is a plan view of my glove-blank,showing the quirks shaped out with rounded ends. Fig. V is a plan view ofthe fourchette employed therewith. Fig. VI is a perspective View of the glove made from this blank looking toward the base of the lingers. Fig.. VII

'isdadetailviewshowing a quirk extending entirely across the base of the fingers between the inner parts of a halved fourchette.

My glove-blank is shaped or cut so as to produce when folded a palm`1,having inner i finger parts 2, and a back 3, having outer iinger parts 4. The innerngerparts 2 are cut or shaped at the base thereof on the divergent lines 5 to'form tonguesor quirks 6, extending in continuous pieces from the palm and at the same time providing the inner nger parts with narrowed ends 7 at the base thereof, which4 conform'to the contracted form of the inner ends of the fingers of the humanhand.

'8 denotes the fourchettes,which are locatedbetween and secured to the inner and outer finger parts of two adjacent fingers. Each fourtirely across the base of the fingers between the divided ends of the fourchettes.

The greatadvantage in this improvement consists in part in thus making the fingers of the gloves conform strictly to the natural form of the fingers of the human-handremoving all bagginess and taking up or doing away with the slack of ordinary gloves as well as the tendency of all gloves manufactured under the old form to choke at the inner part of the fingers when the hand is closed. In my improvement by having the glove conform to the form of the fingers wrinkling, bagging, and choking are obviated and the glove made a perfect fit whether the hand be opened or closed. Another advantage lies in the fact that in putting on the glove all strain which of necessity falls upon a stitch or two in the old seWed-fast inserted quirk-piece is removed. In forming the Quirk-piece in one continuous piece with the palm of the glove it renders the glove more durable by reducing the strain of the hand to a minimum by doing away with the liability of the glove to split when the hand wearing it is grasped or grasps tightly. By this close contact of the glove itself to the hand wearing it freedom of motion is secured to all the muscles of the hand and fingers.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A glove having tongues cut away from the base of the inside finger parts whereby the inner ends of the said inside finger parts are narrowed and quirks produced whichextend in continuous pieces from the palm of the glove and between the fingers thereof and fourchettes attached to the sides of these quirks and to the sides of the inside and outside finger parts.

2. A glove having tongues formed with rounded ends cut away from the inside finger parts whereby the inner ends of the said nger parts are narrowed and quirks produced which extend in continuous pieces from the palm of the glove and between the fingers thereof and fourchettes having recesses at their inner ends in which the rounded ends of the attached or. solid end quirks extend, and attached to the sides of the said quirks and to the sides of the inside and outside finger parts.

JENNINGS COMRIE.

Witnesses:

H. K. CURTIS, EDWARD A. Mook. 

